Metacam Wound healing functions?

RE: Metacam Wound healing functions?

Cyonica — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:00:20 GMT

It depends what you mean. I wouldn't say NSAIDs help the wound heal, and it could even be argued they disrupt healing, since they mess with the body's normal inflammatory response to injury as well as platelet function. For the reasons already mentioned, NSAIDs are considered very effective when used either immediately post op or following an injury as part of a multimodal analgesia plan, but the evidence suggests they shouldn't be used in the long term for musculoskeletal healing. They've been found to potentially impair bone healing (there are arguments over whether they should be used when there's been bone injury at all), and there's been evidence that they don't help with pain from tendon injury after the first 7 days or so. Choice of analgesia is of course always up to the vet, but I find it interesting to read about (some of it seems to be rather hotly debated!), and as the patient advocates I think it's important for us to be able to contribute to discussion on analgesia plans.

RE: Metacam Wound healing functions?

Georgie Hollis — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:21:11 GMT

Might be worth resuscitating this post. Happy to try and answer this... Personally it's more anti-inflammatory than beneficial to healing. If you have a chronic wound that is non-healing due to continued inflammation it can stall the inhibition caused by inflammation - but i don't think it actually aids healing. More pain relief and anti-inflammatory. The problem is still present. Agree with James Colver.

RE: Metacam Wound healing functions?

James Colver Cert. Ed, RVN — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 20:56:29 GMT

Who was it that told you that? Maybe it would be worth asking them what they had in mind??

Taking a 'holistic' approach to that question, if an animal is provided with adequate analgesia during wound healing then he or she is a) more likely to be willing to eat (the importance of nutrition and wound healing are well established) and b) less likely to want to interfere with the wound.